Chapter 459: Hard Battle

Chapter 459: Chapter 459: Hard Battle

Ved saw a man with red hair and burning eyes standing there grinning at him, blood red flames blazed around him.

" It’s been a while little cockroach." Vermilion grinned and pointed a finger at Ved, dense essence energy gathered in front of his finger.

A marble sized sphere of blood red flames condensed, Ved smelled a strong scent of blood.

The temperature rose and the crimson space around him turned a shade of red deeper.

A thin beam red beam shot towards Ved faster than light, it wasn’t so fast he couldn’t dodge it.

But dodging meant letting go and allowing this creature to trap and consume Naledi and he wasn’t letting that happen.

As soon as Vermilion attacked, Ved’s law avatar bloomed behind him casting a shadow over his body.

The thin beam pierced through his stomach liquifying his internals, he coughed up blood and his eyes grew colder.

His law avatar swayed and poured life origin drops on his healing his wounds rapidly, the dragon roared.

Golden light poured out its mouth like a waterfall stretching his body. His law avatar shook endlessly.

The roots rose and envoloped his body forming a cocoon, his law of destruction surrounded the roots like a blanket and the law of death was very active on them.

Ved knew this could only mean one thing, death was near. His law avatar was seeking a way to increase his chances of survival.

It came to one conclusion, the only way to survive is to run and it tried to drag his body away.

Then a war started within himself, his will to survive and his pride, his dragon image resisted his Yggdrasil image.

The roots pulled and the dragon pushed reaching some form of stalemate, the tree was obviously stronger of the two.

His will to survive still surpassed his pride but this was different, it was more than about his pride. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

It was about Naledi, Ved couldn’t bring himself to abandon her so he resisted against the very essence of his being.

His will split into three, the dragon pride will, the subconscious self preservation will and the main will.

If others heard of this they would be shaken to the core, what Ved had just done was beyond even sovereigns.

Splitting ones own will was a task believed to only be reserved for Gods. Unfortunately his tremendous will was not enough.

A blood red flames blossomed like flowers inside him, his iron scales couldn’t block the heat.

They melted into his body turning him into a grotesque being resembling a melted candle, even his eyes exploded.

Ved couldn’t remember the last time he experienced heat this overwhelmingly hot, perhaps he never did.

His law barrier did not do enough to defend him, neither did his own divine flame, after all the attack sprouted directly inside him.

There was no essence energy inside the attack which could only mean one thing, this was a law art.

Vermilion directly used a law art against a lower ranked enemy, he was as shameless as he was before.

This attack was unavoidable, it directly Ignited your blood and burning you from the inside out.

It was an incredibly powerful attack and his regeneration was finding it hard to keep up, even with his law avatar.

A green aura surrounded him, his law of life tried to combats the law of blood fire burning him to no avail.

Although both were great laws, Vermilion’s comprehension of his own law far surpassed Ved’s comprehension of the law of life.

Ved ignored the mind numbing pain and focused his senses on Naledi, seeing him on fire she flew as fast as she could.

Unfortunately Vermilion was even faster than she was, giant sword of blood surrounded by red flames appeared behind him.

He swung the sword down and cut Ved’s head cleanly off, Ved felt his consciousness sinking.

The roots of his law avatar snaked out grabbing his head and putting his body back together.

Throughout all of this, not once did Ved let go of the darkness creature. He faintly heard her whisper.

" Second Phase: Winter’s Valkyrie." Her aura skyrocketed and her speed increased by many folds.

However she still couldn’t match Vermilion unfortunately, his flaming blood sword cut Ved into multiple pieces.

He couldn’t hold the creature back anymore and it crashed towards him like a speeding galaxy.

It moved as fast as Naledi, Ved knew at this rate she wouldn’t be able to escape, one his hearts had been crushed by Vermilion.

The other three were covered in his flames and burning but they still existed, he created three different avatars.

One lunged and collided with the darkness speeding towards him, it couldn’t stop it but it slowed it down.

The other two lunged at Vermilion, he fired two beams of dragon breath turning the crimson world silver.

Vermilion slapped both beams of dragon breath and if swatting a fly. Ved grinded his teeth.

’ He’s too strong, this bastard is way too strong.’ throughout all of this Vermilion maintained a soft smile.

" I’m really going to enjoy your blood little cockroach, you’ve managed to escape from me many times, I wonder if you still can."

A giant flaming hand appeared above the two avatars and reached out to grab them, it looked slow but reached then in a blink of an eye.

One avatar punched the other sending it flying out of the way faster than it could with its own speed.

The remaining avatar was grabbed by the hand abs dragged towards Vermilion, Ved felt it being crushed.

’ He’s trying to extract my essence blood.’ Ved immediately figured that out, essence blood was very important.

Losing that would mean losing almost every ounce of strength he had, he would basically become a hapless lamb here.

Of course the essence blood would regenerate over time but that would be a time he didn’t have.

He immediately canceled the avatar trait and merged the heart with the remaining one doubling his strength.

Since the heart wasn’t destroyed he could still use it immediately to create another avatar.

So he did, this halved his strength but whether his strength was half or doubled didn’t matter here.

It was better to have more bodies to increase his chances of survival than one slightly more powerful body.

However he had greatly underestimated Vermilion. Three giant birds of blood red fire lunged at all of his avatars.

The two free avatars took off trying to dodge the birds but the last avatar couldn’t move and was exploded into blood mist which was incinerated immediately after.

The other two immediately lunged at the darkness creatures mouth to hold it open but the giant birds chased after them.

They were faster and caught up in a blink of an eye. ’ I won’t be able to make it.’ he felt despair grip his heart.

The second avatar turned to dust leaving only one, he felt the temperature above him spike as if he was drenched in lava.

Just as the bird was about to reach him, space twisted around him and the heat was gone.